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and a uniquely youthful
orientation. For many, however, its world-class museums and galleries -
notably the Rijksmuseum, with its collection of seventeenth-century Dutch
paintings,
and the Van Gogh Museum
- are reason enough to visit.
Amsterdam was founded on
a dam on the river Amstel in the thirteenth century. During the Reformation
it rose in stature, taking trade away from Antwerp and becoming a haven
for
its religious refugees.
Having shaken off the yoke of the Spanish, the city went from strength
to strength in the seventeenth century, becoming the centre of a vast trading
empire with
colonies in Southeast Asia.
Amsterdam accommodated its expansion with the cobweb of canals that gives
the city its distinctive and elegant shape today. Come the eighteenth century,
Amsterdam went into gentle
decline, re-emerging as a fashionable focus for the alternative movements
of the 1960s. Despite a backlash in the 1980s, the city still takes a uniquely
progressive approach to
social issues and culture, with a buzz of open-air summer events, intimate
clubs and bars, and relaxed attitude to soft drugs
The City
Amsterdam is a small city,
and, although the concentric canal system can be initially confusing, finding
your bearings is straightforward. The medieval core boasts the best of
the
city's bustling streetlife
and is home to shops, many bars and restaurants,...read
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